Deep Root Analytics, the retards who just leaked profiles of nearly 200 million potential voters, apparently tried to dox retards from r/fatpeoplehate and other subs, and then retardedly put that 170GB folder on a publicly accessible web server

89  2017-06-19 by HAHApointsatyou

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Am I reading this incorrectly, or is this publicly-available data?

Probably, but

Deep Root leaked profiles of nearly 200 million potential voters as well, and it’s possible that it was trying to match names to Reddit profiles

piqued my interest

That's almost everyone eligible to vote. They were gathering info on practically everyone in the country.

From what I've gathered, it was 61% of registered voters spread over 10yrs and three elections, so factoring in duplicates, deaths, etc, it's substantially less than everyone in the country.

oh i see. I still don't get how that's supposedly legal and where they got the info from that connected Facebook to reddit.

The article says they were possibly trying to connect real names to reddit accounts, but were probably not very successful due to their semi-anonymity.

Considering the shitposting that goes on here its probably almost impossible to get any meaningful data from all the noise. Somedays I argue with a libertarian others a feminazi and on Tuesdays I'm an antifa.

Your profile would say you are on the spectrum then.

I post here don't I?

I mean it in a "more than avarage" way. Even in this sea of autists, you stand out.

Mommy always said I was exceptional!

Mine said I was a mistake.

DING DING DING

It's publically available data.

What I found interesting, since this is entirely in the domain of what I do for a living, just in a different employment sector, is that they are clearly using predictive models to impute things about voters that they don't know for sure through publically available data - things like ethnicity and religious status.

While those aren't hot button PII factors, they're all things that live in the sphere of variables we might call "social determinants" that can be used to predict behavior. They also appear to be geo-locating people, which makes sense from a district examination perspective, but also because that allows them to tie off to Axiom, Equifax and census data to pull in financial, environmental and social factors like poverty, educational attainment, creditworthiness - again all things they can use to impute information about the voter and/or use to characterize the voter to generate probabilities of particular voter behavior.

The public by and large doesn't seem to know all of the data which is available in the public domain, as well as what can be purchased completely legitimately. More and more, industries are employing analytics that tie it all together to provide a complete "picture" of variables on any person that help them predict purchasing, voting, or even health behaviors of that person.

The person-level stuff is honestly not of terrible interest; it's more about how it helps tailor messaging, product development, advertisement delivery, and even product selection for groups of people. You message to the mega-church white upper middle class soccer moms differently than you do to the highly educated urban multi-ethnic and a-religious crowd. Either way, they all see a doctor, they all buy laundry detergent, and they all will engage in the political process at some point if the rationale is compelling enough.

My guess on the data from reddit is that it was being used for sentiment analysis - to really evaluate it meaningfully since it is essentially piles of free text, you'd have to use natural language processing libraries to help organize it into meaningful domains, then you can start to synthesize major positive/negative themes about a candidate, a political process, or other things that aren't politically related.

The subreddits in question range from innocuous to controversial. One was the banned subreddit r/fatpeoplehate, which Gizmodo speculates was picked for its connection to Trump fans — a FiveThirtyEight analysis of r/The_Donald members found that outside explicitly political subreddits, these users overlapped most strongly with r/fatpeoplehate members. But Deep Root also collected information from mountain-biking and Spanish-speaking subreddits, which have no such connection.

So T_D really does hate Americans

Just the fat ones. Donny better hit the slim fast.

The joke is that all americans are fat

25% of us are still fighting the fight.

They're skinnyfat.

Some but Euros got us beat there.

I'm not fat. I'm big-boned.

Mexicans actually have the highest obesity rates ;)

I thought it was Australia?

Got that block body on lock

Technically there's a Polynesian island that has the record so far. But they don't matter.

American Samoa?

The fuck is a polynesium and does it have oil

That's racist

T_D could be convinced to hate Donny and they would do it.

what how

You can't just say shit like this and not tell us how.

We are just trying to Make America Great Again, fam.

doesn't it have to be "great" a first time to be "great again?" or like even anything a little bit better than below average a first time?

america is far and away the best country on earth

did you just post this unironically?

unironically no

Then everything belong to America. People often ask me what it means to be an American. I tell 'em it's triumph. Triumph. Triumph when we nuke our enemies. Triumph when our flag flutters in the wind on the moon. Triumph when we peer down from the moon and laugh heartily at Russia. Triumph when we depose one dictator after another. Triumph when we break into the homes of terrorist kingpins on the other side of Earth and shoot them in the face. Triumph when we use flying robots to bomb other terrorists in Afghanistan. Triumph when we were the main reason the Nazis were defeated in WWII. Triumph when we freed Europe twice. Triumph. Triumph. Triumph. But it's not just the the big things, see? It's the way I can set up lawn chairs at my friends house on the Texas Rio Grande and share a toast to freedom while watching Mexicans charge into gunfire to enter my country. It's the way an Italian cabbie sits up straight and floors the gas when he hears my accent. It's seeing the wide eyes and bead of sweat running down the forehead of a German customs agent when he opens my passport. It's the way a French waiter hangs his head when I refuse the wine and ask for Coke instead, in English knowing full well he understands me (and that they have it). The way an Aussie blushes and leans into the urinal next to me in the bathroom, or the scowl that meets my smirk when I tip an English waiter in US dollars covered with Washington's face. The way small mobs of Canadian school children follow me from a distance to see what a free man looks like, or how heads timidly rise and women gather when my accent stops the music in the clubs of Amsterdam. Triumph. Every bit of it, triumph. That's what it means to be an American.

Unironically this. :-D

Whats the best country on earth then

any socialist white majority scandinavian country i've never visited :P

Can you imagine being so stupid you thought Trump was the person to do that?

I voted for the winning side in 1992, 1996, 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020.

I see you didn't like Bush

Based on primary votes I think you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who did. Even people who enjoy guac were voting against him.

Congrats on reliably being part of the majority?

Thank you!

No you didn't. There is literally no way to pretend Trump is a win. If you believed in what Trump said then congratulations George Soros' Jewish business partner is the most powerful person in the country. If you wanted a Republican, congratulations you managed to get the one who's so incompetent that even with both houses, he can't pass legislation.

Wait, so you voted Hillary? Or do you mean you voted for the winning delegates that voted for us?

what

apparently tried to dox retards from r/fatpeoplehate and other subs

why would they dox their support base. the "reddit folder" has nothing to do with the other voter leaks. they were probably crunching the data to analyze what appealed their support base. besides, there's nothing to "leak" in that reddit files. all of it is easily accessible (including fatpeoplehate before they banned) and is publicly available on github, in fact I think they copied the github files and hosted them in a web server and didn't care to secure it because why would they have to?

The whole thing is a nonstory. Voter rolls are public information

So you would prefer that it was kept secret who is registered to vote? Your link doesn't even mention anything about Bernie and who one votes for is never tied to voter rolls; all that's kept on file is things like age, party affiliation, name, address and if you cast a ballot in any recent elections

Looks like you summoned a bot account! Check its profile. I wonder what the goal is of someone spending money on server time running botnets with bots like this.

/u/Vote_Democrat is just a dirty SRDine unfortunately

There is a difference?

how do you know that? they delete their comments regularly or is it a known alt?

i just clicked on the profile, and on the first page was SRD but it was like a year ago. I didn't even notice

I've seen too many bot accounts like this with a years old account and months between comments to think this is an alt. there isn't even a purpose to use a secret alt to make an innocuous comment like that anyway. bot account it is. I predict they'll delete the account and all comments since we're discussing it like when it happened to one of my posts here in /r/drama of all places. they don't like attention like that, generally.

Over 125,000 people in NYC alone were purged from the voter rolls when it became known that they would vote for Bernie.

those 125000 should have been purged in real life too imho.

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That'll take a lot of helicopters

I like that you linked an article that doesn't support your contention at all. Retarded, just like Bernie.

so, only the voter rolls were "leaked"? a "researcher" discovered public data in a server and published it? why is this even a story to begin with?

No. It was 61% of the population, not just registered voters.

Voter rolls can't be "leaked" as they're publicly available (but people don't seem to realize this which is why the original story is sitting on top of /r/news right now)

This story is actually about the fact that Deep Root also seemed to be keeping tabs on Reddit users, which, again, is neither nefarious nor surprising in this age of data-analytics

Alright, but it's all publically available information

Doxing is generally done using publicly available information too.

But that's because people use their anonymous accounts and link them to their PII like dumbasses

Then why would the RNC pay $6.7 million for the data? And why would the Koch brothers pay to swap data? This data is conveniently collected in one place and would be nearly impossible for an individual to compile on their own.

Im curious, do you have a good argument as to why a data compilation as large as this is negligible compared to going to every county in the country and collecting the data manually from clerks? Or trying to find the info by going to 3000+ county websites, all for free?

What am I missing?

it's a nonstory from a "privacy" standpoint.

if I paid man-hours to get people to compile this and then it got leaked, I'd be pissed, but that's literally the only people it should matter to.

the reddit part of the story is a non story.

The reddit part of the story is that they were apparently trying to connect real names to reddit profiles.

they were apparently trying to connect real names to reddit profiles.

...as guessed as plausible by the clearly knowledgeable researcher who published it. there's nothing to show how he even arrived at that conclusion. apart from the minisclule number of retards who revealed PI or the location they live in, what can that "analysis" even reveal? I understand analyzing facebook data like this, but on reddit I don't see the value in spending money trying to link a dozen retards to their real name.

there's nothing to show how he even arrived at that conclusion

lol one of the folders was titled "reddit"

but on reddit I don't see the value in spending money trying to link a dozen retards to their real name.

Oh, well, since you don't see it it must not be there!

Top minds.

lol there was a folder titled "reddit".

how does this prove that they were "trying to connect real names to reddit profiles"? it's a political data analytics firm that had reddit data on political subreddits.

Oh, well, since you don't see it it must not be there!

Top minds.

no reason to be ass blasted mate! I really don't see the value in it. with facebook data, you know for sure you can link names with political affiliations and interests. on reddit, the APIs don't reveal the ip addresses or email accounts associated with accounts (which are the only personally identifiable information reddit itself has). the whole point of reddit is to share your thoughts without revealing your name and contact details. so apart from a few retards who reveal it, there's no way to connect a majority of reddit accounts to real names. since you think trying this is worth all the infrastructure costs, employee time and overheads to "dox" a few retards on reddit is justifiable, enlighten me why.

how does this prove that they were "trying to connect real names to reddit profiles"?

No one said it "proves" anything. I specifically said apparently tried to dox. Because that's all the article is saying.

since you think it is worthwhile spending money on all the infrastructure costs, employee time and overheads to "dox" a few retards on reddit, enlighten me why.

Over the 2016 election season, the RNC was a major client of Deep Root, one of a handful firms it contacted for big data analysis. Firms like Deep Root Analytics use data from a variety of sources to extrapolate social and political preferences of voters to determine how best to market to them.

That's why.

And, again, the apparent attempt to connect reddit data with personal data is not nothing, considering the reddit data was 170GB (out of the total 1.1 TB leaked). So they apparently did find it worthwhile. Maybe ask them?

I do find it strange tho how passionately you're defending them tbh. No reason to be ass blasted mate! (:

nobody is doubting that political data analysis firms analyse reddit data.

I disagreed with this comment of yours

they were apparently trying to connect real names to reddit profiles

lol you tried to defend it by calling me a "top mind" and now you're focussing on "not ackshually believing it but apparently they might have done it".

I do find it strange though how passionately you're defending them tbh. No reason to be ass blasted mate! (:

oh, the irony!

I disagreed with this comment of yours

That's what the article implied. Hence "apparently".

lol you tried to defend it by calling me a "top mind" and now you're focussing on "not ackshually believing it but apparently they might have done it".

Where did I try to defend anything? That was what the article said. I didn't write it. I was just saying that I don't consider you a more credible source. Because of, you know, the whole general retardation thing you struggle with.

And you clearly don't understand irony, so yep, top mind indeed.

I was just saying that I don't consider you to be a more credible source on any of it.

I didn't claim to be the source of anything. Try again.

I just disagreed with you and asked for evidence that the analytics company tried to connect real names to reddit accounts because that is basically impossible to do for any reasonable number is users without hacking reddit servers.. you couldn't and now you're backtracking claiming that you never believed the article anyway and you were just an innocent messenger quoting what the author said. no.

you couldn't and now you're backtracking claiming that you never believed the article anyway and you were just an innocent messenger quoting what the author said.

Who's backtracking lol? I never said I believed anything. That's just literally what the article said.

Try again, little one.

top mind indeed.

Try again, little one.

haha. feel smug calling me names all you want, you were wrong and had to accept it in a roundabout way eventually.

What was i wrong about?

I was only trolling and pretending to be retarded all along!

boring. fuck off

No, seriously, what was I wrong about? You keep saying that as though I was trying to be right about something.

I think you're a bit confused, little one.

Lol you're retarded

Besides, monitoring /r/drama to get a good sociological study on weaponized autism.

My real name is Chico Cup so I could see how that would work.

no one is saying t worked you mong, just that they apparently tried

So, nothing?

Why are you so hostile over this? I didn't write the article or leak 1.1TB of data lol

Who's hostile? They don't even know if it was actually downloaded, it was found by someone who's work is finding unsecured shit. I'm just not really bothered.

Again, no one said you have to be bothered. It isn't about you, weirdo.

Look, I know many of you illegal T_D immigrants haven't fully assimilated into r/drama culture yet, but exaggeration kinda our thing and protected by our Constitution.

I've been here before TD was a thing.

Then you should know better. Now I'm doubly disappointed.

Sorry I just don't see the REEES. I'm a Trump fanboi but I'm perfectly happy to call out the Donald REEES cause they have had some good ones.

lol ok

Don't call it a comeback, I've been an idiot for years

I am sitting in bed reading this reply and something struck me.

I should probably manscape my calves. They are getting rather hairy.

There it is. The good ole "I was just pretending to be retarded."

I never pretend.

Oh.. "the verge"...

Nothing to see here.

If everyone is exposed no one is exposed. What am I suppose to be worried about exactly? I'm rich and white, but need to work 5 days a week for a living to maintain it, so by default I'm a republican gun owner who voted Trump. You don't need a leak to figure that out.

you know what they say: safety through obscurity

I know someone who is heavily involved in computer security who hates that she is the only one in the US with her exact name, so she's easy to google. She grew up in the USSR so shes a bit rightfully paranoid about the government.

Side note, she switched from hard left leaner to voting Republican with Obama being his campaign used the same kind of imagery she grew up with in the Soviet Union. I haven't talked to her in about 6 years now, I wonder how she feels now that his abuse of the NSA is coming to light.

with Obama being his campaign used the same kind of imagery she grew up with in the Soviet Union

Huh?

What am I suppose to be worried about exactly?

Who said you were?

What the drama though? You need people REEEEEEEEEEing

You need people REEEEEEEEEEing

You and others ITT have taken care of that part. (:

You're reeeeeing more than anyone in this thread tbqh

tbqdh

ftfy bb

I don't get it

^ literally the reason trump won

Don't you put that evil on me

If everyone is exposed no one is exposed

"mommy what's a regex?"

What am I suppose to be worried about exactly?

Proper use of tenses, for one. Seriousposting on /r/drama is a close second tho.

Would you prefer The Hill?:

No, not really.

Too bad.

Just because they don't suck your daddy's dick doesn't make them a bad source, despite what your caretakers say.

Just because they don't suck your daddy's dick doesn't make them a bad source

It does make them anti-American cucks, though, which makes them a bad source.

and the funniest part is that you actually literally unironically believe that

el em ay oh

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